Amusement device.



JOHN WILDERMAN, OF NE1L' YORK, N. Y.

i Y AMUSEMENT nnvrcn.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 15, 1908.

Application sied my 9, 1907. smal No. asass.

To all rwhom 'it 'may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN XVILDERMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at 1New York, in the county oi New York and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Amusement Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to amusement devices and more particularly to swings where a structure mounted on trunnions or pivots and carrying a car for passengers in its upper part is provided below the pivotal points with weights to produce. a roer'ng or swinging eli'ect to those in the swing, the weights being adjust-able so that the rocking may be limited to a greater or less degree- These and other details and objects of the inven tion will be more fully described in the following specification set forth in the claims and illustrated in the drawings where it will be seen that the same reference characters are used to designate the same parts in the various views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improved amusement device. Fig. 2 is an end view of same. Fig. 3 is a detail view showing how the car is held down for the reception of passengers. Fig. 4 is another view of thesaid holding means. Fig. 5 illustrates the driving means. Fig. 6 shows the means for adjusting the weights. Fig. 7 is a detail view of the eccentric shaft for shifting the driving pulley. i

The drawings illustrate an amusement device represent-ing a boat 1() with the masts 11, bow Sprit 12 and stays 13. Cross braces 14 are also provided and the masts are set in the vertical timbers 15 while the boat is supported on the cross beams 16 which carry the side stays 17.

From one of the timbers 15 tothe other passes a bar 18 whose outer ends are supported at the u )per end of the frame work 19 and on this bar are rigidly secured the sprocket wheels 2() and 21 whose operation is more clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 6.

The lower ends of the timbers 15 carry a box 22 weighted in any suitable manner and having at each end a compartment in which are journaled short shafts carrying the sprocket wheels 23 and 24. This box 22 is permanent but a box 25 with forked ends to straddle the timbers 15, is adapted to be moved up or down by means of a chain 26 passing over the pulleys 20, 21, 23, and 24,

which are permanently loa-ated, and the idlers 27 and 2S on the movable box and in the direction of the arrows in Fig. 6.

To the lower side of the cross bars 16 is secured the segmental friction gearing 29 with the internal bearing surface 30, more clearly shown in Fig. 5 and operating this segment is the pulley 31 at the end of the armature shaft of the motor 32. The motor is mounted on a frame 33 pivoted at its rear while the front end is suspended by means of links 34 from an eccentric shaft 35 operated or partly rotated by means of a handle 36. A toothed segment 37 provides means for the locking of v the handle at a horizon-tal, vertical or inclined position. its horizontal position the frame 33 and the motor occupy a position which causes the friction pulley 3l to engage the segment 29, but when the handle is thrown to the vertical the frame and motor are elevated and the friction pulley thrown into engagement with the lriction wheel 38 on the shaft 18 to drive same so as to turn the wheels 20 and 21 to move the chain 26 to raise or lower theweight 25 according to the direction the motor shaft is turning.

To lock the boat 10 the current is turned on in the motor and the rotation of the pulley carries around the segment 29 in one direction and a reverse of the current moves it in an opposite direction to the handle 36 made to be used to throw the ulley out of gear for the return rock of tiie boat and again connect the friction gears for the forward rock.

At the top of the masts 11 is a car or cage 39, hung so that its flooring is always horizontal and when it is desired to lill this car with passengers the boat is tipped until the masts reach a platform 40 Fig. 3, where they are caught by the latches 41 and held until they are released so that the masts may resume their upright position.'

In order to permit the masts to descend as above described the weighted box 25 is elevated towards the cross xbar so that the box 22 is sim ly a counter weight and the boat will tip with the aid of a little force. W'hen the weight 25 is at the lower end of the tim- While this handle 36 is inV bers 15 it becomes impossible for the boat to y be lipped too far towards the horizontal. To retain the boat in its charve or take on a supply o passengers and osition to disto rtlieve the latches 41 of too much strain 110 a brake shoe 42 is carried by a lever 43 and is ada ted to retain the segment 29 at any desire point.

When thev ear is filled with the required number of passengers the motor is put in operation and a veryv small amount of power is necessary to roc.; the device on the axis 18. Vlien the-counter weights 22 anu 25 are properly ro ortioned ascompared with the size of t ie oat and car with its passengeis and the bearings of the bar 18 properly oiled, the operationbecomes very easy and when once started will rock for some time.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In an amusement device, the combina tion with a supporting frame, of a shaft journaled therein, radial beams carried by the shaft, a car carried by the beams near one end, counter weights at the other ends of the beams, meansl or adjusting the Weights along the beams, a motor means for rocking the car, and means for connecting the motor with' the rocking means or the adjusting means.

2. In an amusement device the combination with a supporting frame, of a shaft ada ted to rock 1n same, a structure on the sha t, a hanging car on the structure, adjustable weight-s hung from the structure and beneath the shaft, gearing carried by the structure to rock it, pulleys on the'sliaft to adjust tlie weights, a motor and a driving pulley on the motor shaft adapted to alternately rock the structure or adjust the weights. i

3. In an amusement device, 'the combinaion of a supporting frame, a shaft mounted on said frame for oscillating movement, an oscillating frame on said shaft, a fixed weight at the lower end ofsaidoscillating frame, an adjustable Weight on said oscillating frame, a gear carried byV the oscillating frame, a gear carried by the shaft, meansactuated by the gear on the shaft, to raise and lower the adjustable Weight, and a motor having an element movable into and out of engagement with either the gear on the shaft or the gear in the oscillating frame, at will, to cause said motor to supplv power for the purposevof raising or lowering the adjustable Weivht, or for the purpose of oscillating the osei lating frame, as may be required..

In testimony whereof, I aflix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

- JOHN WILDERMAN,

Witnesses:

JAMES F. DUHAMEL, MAE W. CLINTON.

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